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Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto is one of the most important gaita and traditional cumbia ensembles in Colombia since the mid-1950s. They return to London for a very special one off show as part of their European tour this Autumn. As LATIN GRAMMY WINNERS, for best traditional album ‘Un Fuego de Sangre Pura’, and Latin Grammy Nominated for Best Traditional Album 2020, they have persisted through several generations of musicians and the group provides a crucial link between traditional gaita & cumbia music and its contemporary renewal.  More info here.

November will see 2 days of the most incredible Mexican celebration Día de Muertos, a community celebration of life: the biggest festival of the Day of the Dead in Europe, this year taking Mexico’s Monarch butterfly, known to transport the souls of our ancestors as the central point of inspiration.

🇲🇽 Expect: Culture, live music, Mexican street market, children & adults’ workshops, art, crafts, design, face painting, dance and many other great surprises.

The group’s fusion of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and electronic beats have long been a staple of our dance floors over the years and now we can finally experience the magic live.

Their musical-visual shows have been developed with their own style that they call “Berbenautika”, inspired by the tradition of pikós (sound systems) and the verbena (popular festival). They recreate La Cumbia, El Fandango, La Champeta, El Bullerengue among others, mixing them through electronic tools with rhythms and cultural styles such as Hip Hop, House, Techno, Break beats, Scratching and live video.

We cannot think of a better space to present the full audio visual experience than the wonderful Village Underground in the heart of East London. This is one for the books!

Romperayo sounds like a fast moving musical journey through Colombian tropical folklore, a mischievous and modern interpretation of the psychedelic sounds of 70s cumbia and other tropical rhythms. Expect musical fireworks that don’t only move your hips and feet, but also direct your brain into a blissful mood.

Romperayo is part of the new Colombian music scene that re-interprets their roots in a fascinating way, combining both traditional rhythms and modern electronics. It’s bordering on utter weirdness, but at the same time very danceable and full of musical humor too. Other bands from this scene are Meridian Brothers, Frente Cumbiero and Los Pirañas. Pedro Ojeda, drummer of Romperayo, happens to be the drummer from Los Pirañas too as well as being a key member of the Ondatropica band alongside Quantic.

We could not have foreseen the musical delights 2023 has thrown our way with some of our favourite international and local acts and DJs over the course of the year ✨

Very grateful to all the vibes from YOU and to all our crew, friends, familia and all venues we’ve worked with 🙏

We super excited to share our late summer / Autumn schedule – and a fitting way to celebrate the Movimientos 18th aniversario – over the years putting on countless grassroots and international live music shows, events and club nights … and we continue!

Appropriately we are kicking off the celebrations with a big Cumbia party THIS FRIDAY followed the week after by a journey to Bristol with the mighty Kumbia Boruka.

We are also co-hosting two very special events to mark 50 years since the military coup in Chile – one a Chilean Hip Hop special and the other celebrating the songs of the Chilean rock bands who drove the sounds of a new counterculture in the 80s.

There’s breathtaking Brazilian music with new generation artists Bia Ferreira (alongside our friends at Mama Sound) and João Selva. Experimental sounds from Argentina with Santiago Cordoba.

Special guests from Colombia are arriving to join Bullerengue crew Akolá Tambó at Hootananny alongside one of our favourite DJs Cami Layé Okún for a big party at our Brixton home.

And we are delighted to host a UK debut for Colombian singer songwriter Briela Ojeda (tickets on sale this Thursday) for a very intimate show.

Further into November two very hot tickets are one of our favourite UK Latinx artists Desta French with a rare London show … as well as HUGE Argentinian Cumbia orchestra La Delio Valdez for the UK debut!!!

Not forgetting a special guest from Mexico joining the party for a Día de Muertos fiesta in Soho (more details soon!)

Thanks to all our partners and the venues for their collaborations and of course our audience for your amazing support – in the current climate it’s not easy putting on these shows so feel free to share widely.

Following on from the hit track ‘Alma Carnavalera’ with 300k + streams on Spotify ‘Campo de Minas’ is the new track from Stephanie Santiago – a fusion of Bossa ballad and Afro-Brazilian grooves as part of a series of releases that sees her explore her Latin American heritage, revealing a new sound informed by life in London and Latin American lineage.

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Produced alongside her regular collaborator Andres Pascua, the musical inspiration came about from Steph and Andres’s common love for Brazilian music. Whereas her previous two tracks took their cue from Colombia inspired by Cumbia and Bullerengue this time there’s more of a Brazilian influence, eschewing the synth / electronic sounds and programmed drums for a more acoustic and percussive sound. 

The track features Colombian percussion and rhythm sign language band La Legión (based in Bogotá, Colombia) which was live directed and arranged by Jorge Arciniegas who thought of bringing the elements of samba reggae that worked perfectly with the South American and African instrumentation of the percussion ensemble. The percussion was recorded live at the State of The Art recording studio Altar Audio in Bogotá, Colombia.

About the song’s subject matter Stephanie says “What inspired me lyrically was a situation where one day I was working as a mobile hairstylist in a household of yuppie brits.. I was disregarded in conversational topics and experienced racial microaggressions..  I was not exactly hurt by this but it more or less enforced the idea that race and class discrimination prevails in modern society.. just in a more subtle way.”